Contributing
Local development setup, verification workflow, and a guide to adding a new build-tool adapter.
IMPORTANT: Developer documentation for the current development branch. This content is unreleased, may change without notice, and must not be treated as Buildish release documentation.
Developer Guide
Architecture, portability, and release information for contributors to Buildish Mammoth Cache for Gradle and Maven.
This unreleased development guide is for contributors and maintainers of Buildish Mammoth Cache. Start with Contributing for local setup and the full validation gate.
- Architecture explains the cache model, key design, and delta protocol.
- CI provider portability records the boundaries for possible providers beyond GitHub Actions.
- Additional build tools assesses possible adapters beyond Gradle and Maven.
- Maintenance covers dependency, workflow, and generated-output upkeep.
- Release legal policy records the deliberately TBD release and legal posture.
Nothing under this development route is release documentation.
Maintenance
Ongoing maintenance tasks for Buildish Mammoth Cache for Gradle and Maven — signing keys, schema versions, partition fingerprints, and CI checks.
Provider Portability
The architecture for supporting multiple CI providers and the current implementation status for each.
Additional Build Tools
Assessment of build tools beyond Gradle and Maven as candidates for future adapter support.
Release Legal Policy
The Buildish release legal policy is still to be defined.
Kotlin Multiplatform Evaluation
Assessment of Kotlin Multiplatform as a way to share code between a GitHub Actions Node.js entrypoint and a JVM Jenkins plugin.